CMS Establishes System to Track EHR Meaningful Use Incentive Recipients
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will track eligible medical professionals receiving incentive payments for demonstrating meaningful use of electronic health records.
The system is called “Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program National Level Repository (NLR).” The NLR will collect, maintain and process information for the incentive program and will be disclosed to [...]
CMS Launches Website for EHR Incentives
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently launched a website aimed at educating eligible healthcare professionals on electronic health record (EHR) incentives. View the website.
Bill to Expand EHR Incentives to Hospital Outpatient Docs Stripped
The Senate stripped out provisions in a pending jobs bill that would have put hospital-based physicians who treated outpatients in line to receive health IT incentives under the HITECH Act.
Those provisions may now be part of future legislation.
The initial version of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act contained a provision that would have [...]
Draft Bill Expands EHR Incentives to Outpatient Docs
The Senate Finance Committee today released the draft of a jobs bill that removes a ban against physicians in hospital-based outpatient clinics from participating in the health IT incentives in the HITECH Act.
Among its proposals, the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act would allow physicians who practice in outpatient or walk-in clinics associated with [...]